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Jeff smacked his hands together. “So open it up. What’re you waiting for?”
“I thought we should check if it was rigged first,” Maya said.
“I think if it was, it would have gone off by now,” Aria said. Leaning over the box, she shone her light into the hole. “Let’s get it out of here first.”
She reached for the case.
“Let me take it,” I said. “Just in case.”
When everyone stepped back, a sense of unease washed through me, yet this was hardly a blip compared to the lethal situations I’d been in before.
Carrying the case, I led the teams through the yacht to the ladders at the front. Hooking my arm around the case, I climbed down, and I was like the Pied Piper leading everyone across the bare concrete to the tools.
Ryder and Watts opened a folding table.
I put the case down and stepped back. “What now?”
Whisper stepped forward. “If it was gonna blow up, it would have done it already.”
She flipped open the clips on the case.
I held my breath.
“See,” Whisper said, backing away.
We all leaned in.
Inside the soggy padding was a tiny, ruggedized computer that looked like an oversized cell phone. The screen was shattered, and all the keys on the right-hand side had been blown off. The toggle at the top of those dislodged keys was missing the knob from the end.
“What is it?” Lacey asked nobody in particular.
“What do you think, Cobra? Think you can figure out what’s on that thing?” Aria asked.
“I’ll give it a red-hot crack.” He fished into his backpack and pulled out another computer and a pile of cables.
Aria clapped his back. “Good. You do that. The rest of us will?—”
“I hope you guys are hungry,” a woman’s voice called behind us.
I turned toward the entrance. Blade walked toward us carrying what looked like a very heavy icebox, and beside him was a gorgeous-looking woman with wavy dark hair who was carrying a large tray. Striding in behind them was Viper. Every time I saw that man, his shoulders seemed to get bigger.
“Yes!” Maya cheered. “I’m starving.”
“Hey, Zena, your timing is perfect,” Aria said.
“Did you find something?” Blade asked as he put the ice box down.
Aria indicated to the damaged computer. “Seems so.”
Cobra had already connected the two computers together with a cable, and I was shocked to see the one we’d found had a green indicator light on.
“What’s on it?” Viper hovered next to Cobra’s shoulder.
“I don’t know yet.” Cobra scowled up at him. “Give me some room.”
“Where did you find it?” Blade asked.
As I filled them in on our discovery of the secret compartments, Zena peeled back aluminum foil from her tray, releasing delicious aromas. My stomach growled.
